Ellen Sander, a New York rock journalist and author of Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties (1973), was the poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, in 2013 and 2014. Her short collection, Hawthorne, a House in Bolinas, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2017, and her poetry has been published in journals including the Maine Review, Oculus Vox, Fredericksberg Literary and Art Review, and the American Journal of Poetry.